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In ‘Understand Financial Statements – a Sherlock Holmes approach’ we begin by analysing the published accounts for Andycabs, based on the figures we produced in ‘Understand Accounting’. Please download them so that you can refer to them as you read […]

Joan has been teaching driving for many years. Until recently she has been content to just produce the information necessary for her to pay her taxes. Now she would like to see a full sat of accounts and she has asked you to produce them. she values your opinions highly and is hoping for some suggestions as to how to improve her business’s performance.

The published cashflow statements have been rewritten so that they present a more complete story, beginning with sales revenue and ending with the cash they have left. Do download them and see for yourselves. They are free!

For hundreds of years double entry bookkeeping has been taught as a set of rules, to be learned by rote and followed to the letter. There was no explanation as to where these rules came about nor why they worked; ‘just do as I do, and don’t ask awkward questions’. This is a shortened version of the original paper presented in Istanbul – which is also available for you to download.

Pacioli – 1457 – 1517 – Father of Accounting. My presentation at Sansepulcro was based on this paper, which is also available in Italian: PACIOLI E MATEMATICO Do download either or both- they are free!

In 1502 Carlo finally achieved his life’s ambition and bought a beautiful ship with which he intended to travel to India, following the route discovered by Vasco da Game where he would acquire spices in exchange for the silver and trinkets that he would be taking with him. These spices would fetch good money on his return.

William and Patricia, brother and sister, had grown up with boats all their lives; their parents owned a six berth cruiser, and every summer holiday had been spent on the Norfolk Broads – waterways that extended for hundreds of miles. So it is not surprising that their ambition was to own their own boating business.